Musing : Westerlijk (Western)

An imagination inspired by nostalgia for the parental home.

The house called “De Woelgeest” (‘The Turmoil spirit’) is depicted as a floor plan in the upper left, the rooms and garage in proportion, the vegetable garden,
the bird barns and the wooden forest playhouse, as well as the entranceway and the sand road along the side, all in proportion.

The house stood in the woods and some of father’s hobby birds are pictured, a peacock (feather), pheasants, chickens and fowl.
The meadow birds are represented by the beloved whimbrel and a bank swallow.

Here Ceciel , as an 11-year-old girl planting a red beech together with the neighbor in the middle of a meadow.
(That beech tree is still there, grown very big)

The butterfly (mourning cloak-Nymphalis antiopa) represents loss, passing into twilight,
across the fields behind the forest where the pollarded tree called “cat tree” stood.

A Buddhist infinity knot symbolizes eternal interconnectedness.

Musing  – Westerlijk (Western) – completed 2024 – size : 50.5/33.5 cm…
DMCmouline embroidery silk thread on linen.